Ibero-American Consensus on Communication Skills for Nursing Degree students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.5653.3565Keywords:
Nurse-Patient Relations; Health Communication; Graduate Nursing Education; Learning; Consensus; Delphi Technique.Abstract
Objective: as a health care profession focused on caring for
people, Nursing requires sound communication skills. Based on an
international expert consensus, a proposal on learning outcomes in
clinical communication for undergraduate Nursing education curricula
in Spanish speaking countries is presented. Method: a steering
committee, consisting of 5 nurses and experts in communication in
health care sciences, drew up the first list of communication skills
specific to the Nursing degree. Their proposal was reviewed and
improved by a committee of 7 international scientific advisers. 70
experts from 14 countries were selected using a snowball sampling
procedure and invited to participate in a distance modified Delphi
consensus process in two survey rounds. Statistical analysis was
carried out to establish the final consensus level for each item.
Results: a questionnaire with 68 learning outcomes in clinical
communications was submitted for panel assessment. In the first
Delphi round, the panel reached a statistical consensus on all the
items assessed. There was no need for a second round to reconcile
positions. Conclusion: an academic proposal, approved by a high
level of international consensus, is presented to guide and unify
the learning outcomes on the clinical communication curriculum for
undergraduate Nursing studies in Spanish speaking countries.
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